Quality & Food Safety Manager

Date: 14 Feb 2025

Posting End Date:

Location:

St. Louis, MO, US, 63111

Company: ICL Specialty Products Inc

As the Quality & Food Safety Manager , you will provide necessary leadership and technical knowledge to ensure superior laboratory services, improve product quality and plant reliability through our Quality & Food Safety Systems. The Quality & Food Safety Manager leads the Food Safety program, supports the plant health and safety objectives, manages the department's costs within budget while looking for ways to lower analytical and quality related costs. This position is the management representative for Quality & Food Safety.

Job Location: St. Louis - Carondelet Plant

I’m interested! What will I get to do in this position?

Ensure ESH Compliance

• Unsafe conditions are recognized and corrected

• Preventive programs are in place to maintain safe conditions

• Ensure compliance with MOC process.

• Attend monthly safety meeting and completes regulatory ESH&T requirements

• Perform job safely, in an environmentally sound manner and in accordance with all cGMP requirements

• Support the Carondelet CERT committee, ensuring adequate emergency response.

• Actively support the plant ESHST goals and plans.

Manage Quality Assurance & Food Safety Systems

• Ensure compliance with GFSI standard

• Ensure compliance with HACCP

• Ensure compliance with ISO certifications for quality and food safety

• Promote continuous improvement in GMP's requirements

• Participate as the plant lead for any FDA/USDA audit

• Manage the NSF certification

• Manage NF compliance

• Food safety representative for the site

• Manage quality requirements including ISO 9001, NSF, cGMPs, NF, HACCP and GFSI scheme

• Facilitate Management Review Meetings/ Quality and Food Safety Meetings

• Coordinate input and output data for Management Review

• Manage quality and food safety records

• Manage shelf life studies

• Ensure compliance with required product validations.

• Manage external and internal food safety communications

Manage Quality Control

• Analytical issues are investigated promptly and corrective actions prevent recurrence

• Maintain analytical information in orderly, accessible manner

• Facilitate clear, concise communication flow between businesses and laboratory

• Coordinate sample requests, identification/disposition of nonconforming material, re-sampling frequency and C of A issues

• Establish effective testing protocol for each product.

• Provide timely testing and release of all products.

• Perform customer specification reviews.

• Create and manage materials in SAP.

• Efficiently manage batches in SAP by investigating, releasing, downgrading, moving, etc.

Provide Customer Liaison Support

• Manage/participate in customer visits/audits

• Interface with MTS/Sales

• Respond to customer needs

• Communicate/advocate plant capabilities

• Ensure compliance with corporate imperatives

• Manage/participate in supplier audits & visits

Other Administrative Duties

• Generate reports, track KPl's and communicate to the organization as needed.

• Develop and manage fixed cost budget. Identify and implement cost savings.

• Provide operational support to the sites on quality issues

• Develop operations personnel to participate in customer activities such as investigation of customer complaints, participation in customer visits and in understanding product applications

• Participate in community visits where necessary

• Communicate Quality & Food Safety Systems/Quality Assurance news to plant

• Support implementation of projects across the plant

• Review costs and variances monthly and variances are addressed

• Cost improvement ideas and high potential items are pursued

• Variances forecast in accordance with controller policies

Manage Staff Development

• Provide effective communication

• Provide education and training

• Train laboratory personnel on SAP quality module and other electronic data systems

• Regularly communicate business goals, objectives and desired outcomes

• Establish, communicate and enforce acceptable standards of performance and behavior

• Provide timely performance feedback

Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) Requirements:

At ICL, maintaining a safe and healthy workplace is a top priority. Employees are required to wear appropriate PPE based on the task and environment. This may include safety shoes, gloves, safety glasses, face masks, and, when necessary, full hazmat suits with respirators. Adherence to PPE protocols ensures the safety and well-being of all team members.

What skills and experience do I need to be successful in this role?

• B. A. or B. S. degree in food or scientific related degree required

• Three to five years' experience managing people preferred

• Three to five years' experience working in an analytical laboratory required

• Demonstrated organizational leadership, teaching, team-building, staffing

• Demonstrated experience developing and managing fixed cost budget.

• Experience working in a food grade facility

• Experience performing and understanding of microbiological testing methods.

• GFSI understanding. (SQF certification preferred)

• FDA Food Defense understanding (certification preferred)

• ISO 9001:2015 knowledge and auditor experience desired (certification preferred)

• Current good manufacturing Practices (cGMP) understanding

• Current good Laboratory Practices (cGLP) understanding

• Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) understanding (certification preferred)

Compensation at ICL: If you are hired at ICL, your final base salary compensation will be determined based on factors such as geographic location, skills, education, and/or experience. We also offer a generous benefits package (more information on benefits listed below).

Salary Range: $89,000 - $123,000

Annual Bonus Target : 12%, subject to plan provisions.

We've Got You Covered

ICL is committed to offering you a comprehensive set of benefits to empower you and your family physically, mentally, emotionally, and financially. The benefits we offer to our diverse and inclusive workforce include:

• Competitive base pay and performance bonus

• Medical, dental, vision, and life benefits that start quickly – the first of the month after hire

• Tax-advantaged health savings and spending accounts (when applicable)

• Wellness Incentive Program to lower your health insurance cost

• Generous Leave and FMLA policies

• Prescription program that provides most generic maintenance medications at no cost (including Insulin products & EpiPens)

• 401k eligibility from day one of employment with a generous company matching contribution. 100% vested after one year of service

• Employee Assistance Program

• Student Loan Assistance

• Free membership to a program that offers various discounts for travel, entertainment, groceries, and much more

Who is ICL?

ICL Group is a leading global specialty minerals company, which creates impactful solutions for humanity's sustainability challenges in the food, agriculture and industrial markets. ICL leverages its unique bromine, potash and phosphate resources, its global professional workforce, and its sustainability focused R&D and technological innovation capabilities, to drive the company's growth across its end markets. Our agricultural products feed the world’s growing population, our food additives enable greater access to higher quality food, our potash and phosphate products are essential components for the pharma industry and our bromine-based materials and phosphates contribute to a more energy efficient and environmentally friendly planet. ICL benefits from its advantageous size, geographical spread, and operational flexibility. With a culture based upon leadership, innovation, and sustainability, ICL is well positioned to be an Employer of Choice within the communities in which we operate. ICL shares are dual listed on the New York Stock Exchange and the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange (NYSE and TASE: ICL). The company employs more than 12,500 people worldwide, and its 2023 revenues totaled approximately $7.5 billion. To learn more about ICL, clickhere. (http://www.icl-group.com)

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